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Grant Privett
ParticipantThanks. Will give that a go when we get a clear night – though the forecast in Salisbury is cloudy for a most of the next 3 days.
Are they really ready for operations that fast that they are already ion driving? Thats a pretty quick shakedown.
Grant Privett
ParticipantAre the TLEs on Heavens Above yet?
Grant Privett
ParticipantSo you give it an externally sourced template/reference to aim for? Isnt that dangerous?
Can understand running the process and getting an improved result and using what that processing generated as your template/reference for an iterative process.
But using imagery from some other source means the result is not led by the data itself.
Grant Privett
ParticipantI would imagine the impact of the noise varies depending upon how the wavelet transform is implemented in Registax. A large chunk of the image being replaced with a single value would certainly change the frequency spectrum and has reduced the total dynamic range within the image.
The pixels on the planet will still contain readout/sky noise, but that is a lot less obvious when on top of the brighter background provided by the planet.
My first inclination would be to wavelet first and apply any threshold afterward, but I’m probably over cautious.
2 April 2019 at 4:10 pm in reply to: Does it get darker after the end of Astronomical twilight? #580921Grant Privett
ParticipantHi Chris,
Any chance of seeing one of your SQM from a clear moonless nights? Would be curious to see the shape it takes.
Grant
Grant Privett
ParticipantI used a Meade LS-8 a couple of years ago. That was a case of shove it on the tripod, put tripod outside, plug in and flick switch. It handled all the leveling, north finding, GPS location/time and pointing refinement with an attached built in webcam. Failed 1 in 10 times and took about 10 mins.
You can take image of up to about 30s (threw away about 25% of pics) before field rotation trails the stars and its fine for planets. Got some quite nice pics with one using a Starlight H18.
Worth considering. Its doesnt get any easier – unless you go for a permanent set up. Richard Miles has an impressive solution…
Grant Privett
ParticipantWeather down south also looks poor. Moon will be full too.
Grant Privett
ParticipantPersonally, I would go with mending the dome. Better solution long term.
Grant Privett
ParticipantI imagine whether it is bad news depends upon who buys it.
In recent years it had become a pale shadow of its former self.
Grant Privett
ParticipantDoes the measurement depend on how you look, or where you look? They are quite distinct things.
Grant Privett
ParticipantTheres at least one USB relay on Amazon that can be run via a simple serial port command (but which plugs into USB). If not done in Python its only a few lines in VB6 to create an executable that opened or closed the relay. It even has a small LED on it so you can see the relay status.
Grant Privett
ParticipantWhats a bus in furlongs?
Grant Privett
ParticipantThat does look rather nice.
Grant Privett
ParticipantI must admit I too was tempted until I saw it was in York. Its just too far away for me. About 5hrs continuous traffic-jam-free driving or 4.5hrs on the train. Could stay for the weeknd but have other commitments.
Britain is big and, in the past, meetings have too often been in the south, so I am certainly not complaining.
Looking forward to enjoying the videos from a comfy chair.
Grant Privett
ParticipantIs that real football or the other sort?
Perhaps play it safe and measure in perch, rods and chains*?
* For those unfamiliar with the joys of the archaic Imperial units. A chain is the same length as a cricket pitch 🙂
Grant Privett
ParticipantIsnt his raising an objection at this late stage a conflict of interest?
Also,someone not far from here and had a Meade LX200 in his observatory – which was in a conservation area. He appears to have got round it by making the observatory walls out of stone and flint (local materials) and making the roof dark.
Grant Privett
ParticipantWhat were the grounds for rejection? Was it because the building is listed, because its in a conservation area or something more mundane like being over 2.4m high and near a boundary?
Grant Privett
ParticipantYou got more than me!
Yeah, the coding is fun. More fiddly, than difficult. I wrote some in VB6 a few years ago – that used Source Extractor output, but it could just as easily have used Pisa or Daophot instead. I imagine many would use Python instead of VB6 these days. 🙂
Grant Privett
ParticipantThe problem is it went from owners who wanted to make a living to owners who wanted to be rich with the minimum possible effort.
You see it in business a lot. Buy something good, reduce standards, cut costs and milk that asset!
Grant Privett
ParticipantIn Salisbury it was hopeful when I went to bed, but at 02:50 and 04:15 it was thick cloud…. The sort of cloud that says, there may be a moon in there somewhere but you’ve no idea where.
Ho hum. Perhaps I should have moved east when I retired.
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